May 29, 2019
Vulgar Bodies and Nasty Trades
Assigning blame during a seventeenth-century outbreak of the plague in London.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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May 22, 2019
I Just Can’t Wait to Be Queen
Princess Victoria—sometimes “naughty and vulgar”—grows up.
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May 20, 2019
First You Make the Maps
How cartography made early modern global trade possible.
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May 14, 2019
Nothing But Solitude
When Renaissance explorers went north, they found a lunar landscape here on earth.
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August 07, 2023
Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.